I can't be any more clear on 5.20, Sedayne, sorry

How so? Just because I ask for something more than an ambiguous aphorism? This is one of the problems here, WAV, and one which gives the lie to your academic claims - you say things and resolutely refuse to back them up or else clarify just what is you mean when asked to do so.   

- and, besides, you just did a do-si-do on my monarchism? post!

I'm a political & cultural pragmatist, WAV - there's lots of opinions in the world, but truth remains, as ever, elusive. This seems to me the only absolute, so when it comes to opinions I tend to pass, especially on so emotive a topic as the Monarchy, which has precious little to do with the political realities of life in 21st century Britain other than providing a few more faces for the celebrity driven media spectacle to gawp at. That said, Diana's death seemed a very significant watershed as far as such things go; the mass outpouring of grief was a truly transcendent cultural experience. So again, it's nothing so straightforward that it can be boiled down to your simplistic outsider view of a culture of which you're neither a part, nor of which you have demonstrated any clear understanding.